The Incompetence Defense

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Bruce Green was quoted in The Atlantic about President Trump firing ex-FBI chief James Comey Trump-Russia investigation.

“If an actor has corrupt intent, any act intended to obstruct justice is enough, whether or not it succeeds,” said Bruce Green, a former associate counsel in the Iran-Contra affair and a law professor at Fordham. “But the Senators’ point here may be that you can’t infer from President Trump’s acts that he was trying to derail the investigation, because if he really wanted to do so, he could have done so more effectively.”

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